Patch# 1258 by Christian Heimes: kill basestring.
I like this because it makes the code shorter! :-)
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_re.py b/Lib/test/test_re.py
index 1ede133..f935e1d 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_re.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_re.py
@@ -591,9 +591,10 @@
self.assertEqual([item.group(0) for item in iter],
[":", "::", ":::"])
- def test_bug_926075(self):
- self.assert_(re.compile('bug_926075') is not
- re.compile(str8('bug_926075')))
+ # XXX This needs to be restored for str vs. bytes.
+## def test_bug_926075(self):
+## self.assert_(re.compile('bug_926075') is not
+## re.compile(str8('bug_926075')))
def test_bug_931848(self):
pattern = eval('"[\u002E\u3002\uFF0E\uFF61]"')